What New Horror Movies Come Out This Week?

Release: Premium VOD
THIS IS NOT A REBOOT. It is an entirely original comedy, inspired by the cinematic ‘classic’ “Anaconda,” that features Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd), who have been best friends since they were kids and always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation. The movie they’re dying to make? It might just get them killed…

Release: On Demand
Based on true events, the film is about one night, in 1967, when two attacks by grizzly bears, nine miles apart, took place in Montana’s Glacier National Park.

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
In a post-apocalyptic future after “The Quiet Rapture” event, a convict explores a blood ocean on a desolate moon using a submarine called the “Iron Lung” to search for missing stars/planets.

Release: On Demand
Returning home after a traumatic stint in war-torn Iraq and her mother’s death, Kate begins packing her mother’s belongings—only to suspect something sinister and terrifying is unfolding next door.

Release: On Demand
After surviving a brutal assault, Sarah orders a new form of experimental android therapy called Raptus. But instead of helping her reclaim her mind, her new companion’s controls will be pushed to the limit, putting her in extreme danger.

Release: Theatrical (Wide)
Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) and Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien), two colleagues who find themselves stranded on a deserted island after they are the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it becomes an unsettling and darkly humorous battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

Release: On Demand
A twisted reimagining of the controversial classic – After witnessing his parents’ brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as a young woman challenges him to confront his darkness.

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
A father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe while he equips her for survival and the battles ahead. Directed by Brad Anderson and starring Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, and Milla Jovovich.

During the World Cup final in Argentina, a group of young people is abducted during the dictatorship. But they are no ordinary victims-they belong to a sinister cult bound to a supernatural force, turning the detention center into pure hell.

After awakening in a mental asylum, a patient plans his escape to freedom while fighting off supernatural forces in both the real world, and some that may only live inside his head. But once on the outside, he learns that the life awaiting him is more twisted and dangerous than anything he could conjure in his head, one that is luring him back to the asylum forever.

When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and mysterious grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones). As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight, they find themselves entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.

A family’s retreat to an abandoned hotel awakens a vengeful spirit, trapping them in a nightmare of possession and bloodshed.

Beneath the relentless sun of a picturesque Spanish village, two sisters preside over a boarding house where religious and sexual repression, masked by fanatical morality, hide a chilling secret. Young, uninhibited foreign tourists arrive—displaying a nakedness and freedom at odds with the village’s rigid rules—and their presence ignites a slow-burning tension. When Laura Barkley (Judy Geeson) comes to the village searching for her missing sister, she is drawn into a web of suspicion and mounting dread. As guests begin to disappear, the sisters’ twisted sense of virtue unravels, exposing the darkness festering behind the village’s tranquil facade.

On their wedding day, Michael and Catherine break down and take shelter in an abandoned castle. Soon, a sinister presence awakens, and the night turns into a fight for survival.

Two sisters arrive at their grandmother’s remote farm, only to face a nightmare of blood-soaked secrets and a malevolent curse. As shadows close in and the farm becomes a trap of unspeakable horror, they must confront pure evil to escape with their lives.

The odd night watchman Lundgren lives alone in an old building filled with strange tenants. He falls in love with a mannequin in the shop where he works, and manages to steal it and bring it home. Lundgren begins to buy clothes and presents, believing that the doll is alive and talking to him. The neighbors become suspicious and react strongly to his sick inclinations. A horror drama directed by the masterful Arne Mattsson and with a screenplay by Lars Forssell, a member of the Swedish Academy.

A family business expands beyond their wildest dreams; however, their dreams are the nightmares of others in this fun set of films starting with Halloween where the local kids are fodder for a family of crazies. This family drains them dry to make skin cream products of everlasting beauty.

Never released outside of Japan, FUJI_JUKAI.MOV is an eerie found footage horror movie from filmmaker Katsumi Sakashita. The story follows Ami, a high school student who travels to the Jukai forest to take her own life. But when students Mi-tan and Hinata interrupt Ami’s plans, an even darker side of the forest is revealed. The first J-horror feature to be filmed entirely on an iPhone, FUJI_JUKAI.MOV combines true crime chills with ambitious unfiction to build an unsettling experience that’s a true discovery for found footage archeologists.

Pete Grunderson returns home to Christmas, CA and discovers his family is missing. Were they murdered by the Santa Slasher… and turned into Evil Gnomes?! Is the cult of Mithras alive and well in Christmas, Ca? This town was founded by pagans… More importantly… should Pete get back together with his High School sweet heart Anne? And how is she involved with this Craft Faire Cult that the FBI is investigating? All of this and more will be revealed to Pete as he becomes… GNOME SICK!

For his follow-up to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time, now in UHD for the first time ever in North America: David Hess of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT infamy stars as a charismatic psychopath who – with his equally unhinged sidekick (Giovanni Lombardo Radice of CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) – turns a get-together of chic New Yorkers into an ordeal of class warfare and sexual violence.

A gothic investigation of the supernatural unravels a young woman’s life, revealing dark family secrets and an ancient curse.

Maria Black transforms from an erotic film star to vengeful cyborg. After her mysteriously disappearance, she resurfaces seeking revenge against abuse, leading to sinister events and a very bloody finale.

Visiting his father and stepmother, young David (Joey Lawrence) becomes convinced that a seemingly living force of electricity has been terrorizing the quiet California suburbs.

Homicidal maniac Marc (Don Wood) is constantly driven by demons buried deep within his soul while party girl Wendy (Christine Spencer) lives life fast and hard without a second thought to the consequences. Their separate paths will eventually cross, but will it be on the road to salvation or the highway to hell?

A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a dangerous relationship with a monster rumored to live in the woods.

Plunge headlong into the bizarre happenings of Lamplight County and discover the secrets of Specter’s Rock. Geneva awakens in terror at 4 a.m. to discover her ex-boyfriend Halbert standing in the corner of her bedroom. The following morning, she receives the shocking news that Halbert was murdered at the exact same time as his ominous materialization in her room. Soon after, everyone in town experiences the same simultaneous nightmare involving a strange man called The Lurker. Local philosopher and meditator Travis Martin becomes entangled in the investigation when his initials are found carved near the murder scene. In his obsessive search to find the truth and locate the sequestered Geneva, Travis encounters garish hitmen, a mysterious lotion saleswoman, an escaped face-skinning serial killer, a diminutive interrogator, and a supernatural entity named Minks who haunts the local Sizzler after inexplicably returning from the dead. Enter the world of dreams and the shadow of reality in Specter’s Rock; where murder, mystery, and mustard stains are perpetually par for the course.

A remote wilderness hides a dark legend as Clara Hall, a young girl consumed by demonic possession, unleashes terror. A family’s trip uncovers the pagan curse of Stickman’s Hollow and the horrifying truth buried within.

Héctor (Karra Elejalde) lives with his wife Clara (Candela Fernández) in the peaceful Spanish countryside. One day, while relaxing in their backyard, Héctor spies a woman removing her clothes in a nearby forest via his binoculars. Once alone, he travels to her location to find the woman naked and presumably dead. He is attacked by an unknown, bandaged man, causing him to run further into the forest, where he stumbles upon a top-secret research facility, which happens to be home to a time machine. Upon meeting El Joven (played by director Nacho Vigalondo), a scientist in control of the facility and its machine, Héctor travels back in time one hour. Operating against El Joven’s wishes, Héctor leaves the facility, setting off a series of events with increasingly dark consequences.

The Waits family is looking forward to a nice, quiet getaway in the country with their upcoming homestay in the sleepy town of Nilbog, although son Joshua has strong misgivings about the trip. The young boy is being visited by the ghostly apparition of his late Grandpa Seth, who warns him that they’re heading into a land of man-eating goblins with the power to disguise themselves as humans. Sure enough, when the Waits arrive in Nilbog, things are ominous from the outset – the locals are frosty, all the food is tinged a bizarre green color, and the only milk available in town looks like it’s been left out for days. Whilst the rest of the family attempts to make the best out of these bizarre circumstances, blissfully unaware of the grave danger they’re in, it’s left to Joshua – guided by Grandpa Seth – to lead the charge against the vicious goblins and their evil queen before they’re next on the menu!

For his final work, Godfather of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi – writer/director of MONDO CANE, AFRICA: BLOOD AND GUTS and GOODBYE UNCLE TOM – took on the ‘Nature Strikes Back’ genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career, now in UHD for the first time ever: When PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts – including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats – go berserk and rampage through the streets of Frankfurt.

United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is called upon to help stop the chaotic pandemic that has gripped populations around the world. Lane fights to keep his family safe, while searching for an answer to the outbreak before it destroys all of civilization.